14er Patches

Above the South Colony Lakes are the big walls of the Crestone Needle and the wild gendarmes of the ridge to Crestone Peak. Crestone is Spanish for 'cockscomb.' Elevation 14,197 feet.

Mount Sneffels was named after an Icelandic mountain in Jules Verne's book, Journey to the Center of the Earth. Elevation 14,150 feet.

Mount Wilson is located in the Lizard Head Wilderness of the Uncompahgre National Forest. The original indigenous name for the mountain was Shandoka, which translates to "Storm Maker", a reference to the peak's effect on local weather patterns.

Snowmass Mountain is named for the large snowfield that lies on its eastern slopes. It lies along the border between Pitkin and Gunnison counties, west of Aspen and southwest of the town of Snowmass Village. Elevation 14,092 feet.

Quandary Peak is the highest summit of the Tenmile Range in the rockies and is the most commonly climbed fourteener in Colorado. It has nearly the same elevation as Castle Peak and Mount Blue Sky. Elevation 14,265 feet.

The Maroon Bells are two peaks in the Elk Mountains, Maroon Peak and North Maroon Peak, separated by about half a kilometer. Elevation 14,156 feet.

Mount Belford is a high mountain summit of the Collegiate Peaks in the Sawatch Range. Elevation 14,197 feet.

Wetterhorn Peak (14,021 ft.) and neighboring Matterhorn Peak are named after the Wetterhorn and the Matterhorn, two famous peaks in the Swiss Alps.

Mount Democrat is located 5.4 miles northwest of the Town of Alma. It was once known as Republic Mountain and Mount Buckskin. Elevation 14,148 feet.

Tabeguache, "tab-uh-wash," lies just east of the Continental Divide and just west of the Arkansas River, in the south-central part of the Sawatch Range. It is located within the San Isabel National Forest and is in Chaffee County. Elevation 14,155 feet.

Mount Elbert is located near Leadville and is the highest summit in the rockies. Elevation 14,433 feet.